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Trade Plan

The house just voted to extend the trade vote until July 30th. How they voted below.   Obama’s trade plan in critical condition U.S. Democrats are still opposed to anything that would advance the president’s free trade pact. Congressional leaders and the White House...

Let’s Do Some Railing

The Opinion Pages | OP-ED COLUMNIST Let’s Do Some Railing MAY 28, 2015 Just before Congress slunk away for the three-day weekend — which it was, of course, planning to stretch into a week — senators from the Northeast held a press conference to denounce Republicans...

Blankenhorn & Brauer Confirmed

Illinois Senate vote today. 49-0 vote on Randy Blankenhorn as Secretary of IDOT.  AM 9900025 49-0 vote on Rich Brauer as assistant secretary at IDOT .  AM 9900090. Both now confirmed.

From The Governor’s Office

[https://www.illinois.gov/about/PublishingImages/seal.gif] Office of the Governor Bruce Rauner Friday, May 22, 2015 ICYMI: The Associated Press Below is an excerpt from a story from The Associated Press: Gov. Bruce Rauner plans to introduce legislation Friday to...

APTA: MAP-21 extension bill falls short of infrastructure needs

Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation APTA: MAP-21 extension bill falls short of infrastructure needs   The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a two-month extension to MAP-21, the federal government’s surface transportation funding...